Lemon slicer



July 1, 1941- A. E. CARLSON LEMON SLICER V Filed Sept. 14, 1940 r llllllllllllllll iJNiTED STATEfi PAIN LEMON SLICER Adolph E. Carlson, Farmington, Conn, assignor of one-half to Donald H. Rapelye, Farmington, Conn.

Application September 14, 1940, Serial No. 356,769

Claims. ((31. 146169) F F i Q This invention relates to a machine for slicing Loosely supported and guided by the standlemons into longitudinal sections. and at the rear is a vertical rack bar 8. Fastened The object of the invention is to provide a relato the upper end of the rack bar is the rear end tively inexpensive machine into which lemons of a forwardly extending arm 9 and attached may be quickly placed and easily sliced by anyto the front end of this arm is a cap H! which one, and which will deliver uniform fresh secis secured to the upper end of the tubular plungtions without torn or lacerated structure, as is er H. The plunger is provided with six vertical desirable in club, restaurant and family kitchens downwardly opening slots l2 and the lower edges for garnishing foods and serving with drinks. of plunger between the slots are bent inward and The embodiment of the invention illustrated l0 upward so as to form six concave pointed and has a frame that supports a tubular casing promore or less yielding fingers Hi. The slots are vided in its interior with thin removably retained so positioned that when the plunger is passed into sharpened blades which are diametrically posi the casing the slots will coincide with and retioned in different angular relations one above ceive the blades that extend across the interior the other. A tubular plunger with presser finof the casing and allow t e wer edges of the gers in its interior near the lower end is attached plun r and the fin ers t pass tw d to an arm secured to a vertical rack that is movdown below the blades.

ably supported by the frame and is engaged by Extending e w d y o the p 0f the a gear on an arbor which has a handle that when frame a e a pair of lugs l4 nd rotatably mounted turned forward and downward will cause the in. these lugs is an arbor IS with a gear It that plunger fingers to force a lemon placed in the meshes with the rack. A handle H is provided casing below the plunger down until it has comfor turning t e a bor and gear and s raising pletely passed the blades and is delivered in secand l w rin h r k nd pl n er. A sprin tions below. I8 may be arranged on the arbor for lifting the Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing is a side handle When it is released. elevation of the machine, showing in full lines In ing t hi ri d t i pr f rr the handle, rack and plunger in their upper posito first out Oh a small portion of the tip at each tions and indicating their lower positions by end of the lemon and Place e lemon in the dotted lines. casing above the blades. The handle then is Fig, 21 atop View of t Same, turned forward and downward so as to rotate Fig. 3 is a perspective view looking into the the arbor and the gear and cause the rack to hwer end of the 1 move downward. This through the arm carries Fig. 4 is a central vertical section of the casing the plunger down and Ca e fi e s t0 taken on dotted line 44 on Fig. 5. force the lemon down against the blades until Fig. 5 is a top View of the casing showing the all of the lemon is pushed beyond the blades and angular relation f th blades, the sections dropped into any receptacle that may This frame of the machine shown has a supbe placed below. When the handle is released porting base I and an upright standard 2 which the spring causes the plunger to be lifted into has forwardly extending webs 3. The tubular position to allow the placing of another lemon casing 4 has an exterior flange 5 at its lower in the casing. The fingers in the plunger being end which is mounted upon and secured to the concaved center the lemon and being slightly webs. The casing shown has six slots 6 posiresilient yield as they press the lemon down and tioned diametrically opposite in pairs that are then as the lemon passes the blades they tend located at different levels and through these to ensure the complete discharge of the lemon slots with their ends supported thereby are six sections out of the casing.

thin sharp cutting blade 1. The blades can be The invention claimed is: removed for sharpening or replacing if broken, 1. A slicing machine which comprises a frame, and being located 60 with relation to each other a tubular casing for receiving and surrounding and one above the other they out easily and the fruit to be cut supported by the frame, a plusmoothly as one blade acts in advance of the rality of thin sharp blades with cutting edges exother, and furthermore the blades being held at tending horizontally across the interior of the their ends can be narrow and very thin and prescasing and with their ends retained by th gasent practically no obstacle at the center which ing, a tubular plunger with inwardly and upwould tend to prevent a clean cutting of the W wardly extending concaved fingers in its lower core of the lemon when sliced. end, a vertically movable rack, an arm connecting the rack with said plunger, a gear rotatably supported by the frame and meshing with the rack, and means for rotating the gear.

2. A slicing machine which comprises a frame, a tubular casing for receiving and surrounding the fruit to be sliced supported by the frame, a plurality of thin sharp blades extending horizontally across the interior of the casing at different angles and at diiferent levels with their ends projecting through and retained by the casing, a tubular plunger with inwardly and upwardly extending concaved fingers in its lower end, a vertically movable rack, an arm connecting the rack with said plunger, a gear rotatably supported by the frame and meshing with the rack, and means for rotating the gear.

' 3. A slicing machine which comprises a frame, a tubular casing for receiving and surrounding the fruit to be sliced supported by the frame, said casing having pairs of opposite slots at different levels, a plurality of thin sharp blades eX- tending horizontally across the interior of the casing with their ends removably retained in the slots of the casing, a vertically slotted tubular plunger with its lower edges between the slots turned inward and providing yielding presser fingers, a vertically movable rack, an arm connecting the rack with said plunger, a gear ro- -1tatably supported by the frame and meshing with the rack, and means for rotating the gear.

4. A slicing machine which comprises a frame, a vertically positioned cylindrical casing for receiving and surrounding the fruit to be sliced,

supported by the frame and having diametrically opposite slots positioned at different levels near the bottom of said casing, a plurality of thin sharp blades with their cutting edges extending horizontally across the interior of the casing and their ends extending through and retained one above the other by said slots, said blades being individually insertable'and removable radially of the, casing, a slotted tubular plunger, a vertically movable rack, an arm connecting the upper end of the rack with the top of said plunger, a gear meshing with the rack and rotatably supported by the frame, and means for rotating the gear and thus reciprocating said plunger.

5. A slicing machine which comprises a frame, a cylindrical casing for receiving and surrounding the fruit to be sliced having slots through its side wall, supported vertically by the frame, a plurality of thin sharp blades with their cutting edges extending horizontally and diametrically across the interior near the lower end of the casing at different angles and resting one upon the other at the axis of said casing with the ends of said blades projecting through and retained by said slots in'the casing wall, a tubular plunger, a vertically movable rack, an arm connecting the upper end of the rack with the top of said plunger, a gear meshing with the rack and rotatably supported by the frame, and means for rotating said gear.

ADOLPH E. CARLSO-N. 

